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...guerrillas are becoming more active. Last week the so-called Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front launched attacks on Salvadoran military positions in various parts of the country. In one raid, the government claimed that the guerrillas killed 400 civilians, in addition to twelve members of a local army outpost. But when journalists were taken to a mass grave of victims of the attack, they discovered that it was not big enough to hold more than a dozen people. Diplomatic sources estimate that as many as 40 people may have been killed in the attack...
Suppose that, in 1965, someone at the British embassy in Jakarta passed a classified document to Indonesian Communists, with ghastly results: at a secret outpost in neighboring Malaysia, a British officer and his men were ambushed, tortured and slaughtered by marauding guerrillas. Imagine further that a top-level investigation winnowed the field of possible traitors down to two men. One, William Ludley, had resigned shortly after the atrocity, when he inherited his family fortune, and never returned to England. In the absence of hard evidence, officials interpreted Ludley's self-exile as incriminating and deduced the innocence of Leslie...
...farm at a time when farms hereabouts can be counted on two hands. But how people loved it: hundreds of thousands streamed through its gates every year to gawk at the livestock, ride the Ferris wheel and gorge on Italian submarine sandwiches and homemade pies. Finally, this stubborn outpost of rural sentiment could hold out no longer...
Certainly one cannot traverse this banal movie territory and arrive at the essence of the campaign that supplies this film with its title. Historically, Gallipoli was a tragic epic. On this obscure Turkish peninsula, an outpost of empire was required to sacrifice the best and bravest of a generation in an ill-conceived, almost whimsical attempt to break the stalemate in the trenches of Western Europe. But the ground was wrong-too rugged-and the method of attack-an amphibious assault from small boats-entirely untried. The result was a stalemate as deadly as the one in France. All this...
...besides speaking for her volunteer organization, Hineni, she leads consciousness-raising classes, is finishing a book, writes pamphlets (e.g., Meaningful Sex-A Jewish View) and answers 600 to 700 letters a month. Occasionally Jungreis will boldly park her "heritage" van outside a Hare Krishna or Divine Light Mission outpost and with a loudspeaker try to coax young Jewish converts into leaving...